Pneumatic tire.



A. LATIMER.

PNEUMATIC TIRE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8, 1901.

943,640 Patented Dec. 14, 1909.

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A. LATIMER.

PNEUMATIC TIRE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8 A. LATIMER.

PNEUMATIC TIRE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8, 1907.

Patented Dec. 14, 1909.

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have "invented a new .ment, in Pneumatic Tires for which I have jApplication file tiJuneB,1907; Serial No. 377,883.

To dll whom/Lt may c mm.-

Be it known that I, AL XANDER LATIMnR, of Great Britain and a subject of the King Ireland, and residing atLondon, England,

and useful Improvefiled applicationsfor patentsin Great Brit- ,ain, No. 23, 13 8, datedQctober 19, 1906, and No. 11,838, dated iVlay,21, 1907; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

;. clear, and exact description of the same.

'lhisinvention relates vto covers for pneumatic tires for motor omnibuses and other heavy road vehicles, 'andhas' for its object to provide a tire cover the foundation-,ia bric of'which can, when badly damaged by punc-' ture or 'cut, have the damaged part readily removed and renewed, so as to render the tire cover good for use again, without affecting the anchorages of theadjacent parts of the fabric.

To this end, the invention consists in constructing the foundation fabric of the cover of short lengths of looped rubbered cords of textile material laid, stretched, and compressed side by side, each such cord length being long enough to extend once across the cover at right angles or obliquely thereto as, may be required, and having a loop at each end and being secured at each of its 100 ends to the means of securing it to the wheel rim so that it'can be separately removed and replaced independently of the cord lengths side by side therewit The looped cord lengths may be entire between their looped ends and made as short lengths of single cord provided with an opening or aperture at each end or, they may be made as endless cords doubled together so as to form a loop at each end, and may have their parts between their looped ends separate and unconnected or sewn or otherwise connected together.

:Thefoundation fabric may be composed of a layer of such unit cord lengths stretched side by side and having the loop at each end of each unit cord length separately secured by a pin or bolt between metal disk rings or by hooks or other suitable means to wires, bands, or beads for securing the cover to a wheel rim, or of superposed layers of such unit cord lengths having their respective loop ends superposed and secured by such means.

On the accompanying drawings, which Specification of Letters Patent.

{ 1, represents a of cords forming .to form aloop at UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER LATIMER, 'OF'LONVDON, ENGLAND.

Patented Dec. 14., 1909.

are diagrammatic representationsz Figure single cord length provided with an opening or aperture at each .end. Fig. 2, represents a double looped endless cord length. Fig. 3, representsa fabric composed of a layer of such endless unit cords placed obliquely and held at their loop ends byv pins and metal disk rings. .Fig. 4, represents an inner View of a fabric composed of twoulayers of such endless unit cords, thel cords as-to cross the cords of the other-"layer a'n'd thecords of the two layersabeing held.:at their superposed loop ends by pins "and disk rings. Fig. 5, represents the arrangement flat. Fig. 6, represents a view of the edges of the two fabric layers represented in Fig. 4, and of the means for separately securing the looped ends of the cord lengths; and Fig. 7, is a cross section of a tire cover fitted to a wheel rim. Fig. 8 is another view showing a cross section of a tire cover fitted to the wheel rim. Fig. 9 is a side elevation of a tire with parts broken away to reveal details of construction.

(1, represents a unit 'cord length such as herein referred to having a loop, a at each end and made of a length sufficient only to cross the cover once from edge to edge and each edge. mg the improved fabric, such unit cord lengths are stretched and compressed side y side across the circumference of a cover former so that the loop ends, a, of the conat the edges of the cover, (Fig. 3) at which they are separately secured by suitable means, such, for example, as by pins or bolts, is, engaging with metal disk rings, Z. Another layer or other layers of said unit cord lengths may be superposed upon the under layer so that their loop ends of the cover and in superposed relation to the loop ends of the under layer, (Fig. 4) and secured as aforesaid, (Fig. 6). This construction permits of the constituent cord lengths of the fabric being separately detached, without affecting the anchorages of the adjacent cord for securing the cover to the wheel rim, so asto permit of the cord units at a damaged part of the cover being removed and of new cord units being fitted in their place, A coatof one layer being laid so the two layers shown in Fig. 4, showing the same as distended in the In constructare also located at the edges lengths to the means used respective loops that any ing of rubber m, is provided on the inside of the fabric, and a coating of rubber, n, is provided between the layers, if more than one. The fabric is also covered, as at 0, with rubber, which is vulcanized to the cord formation, and may'also be formed as or provided with a tread, p, of any required formation.

In Fig. 7, q, represents a wheel rim having re1novable fianges,.1", adapted to locate the tire cover so as to enable it to be readily removed.

What I do claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is 1. A neumatic tire cover comprising a foundation fabric composed of rubbered cord-units each formed With a closed loop at each end and extending once across the cover, the cord-units being arranged side by side in one or more layers, inextensible rings at the edges of the cover, and removable pins or bolts passing through and anchoring the to the respective rings so cord-unit damaged by puncture or otherwise-can be removed andreplaced without disturbing the anchorages or tensionof adjacent cord-units, substantially as set forth.

2. A pneumatic foundation fabric composedof rubbered cord-units each having a closed loop at each end and extending once across the cover, the cord-units being arranged side by side in one or more layers, a pair of inextensible metal disk rings at each edge of the cover, the rings of each pair engaging between them one loop of each cord-unit, and removable pins or bolts and coacting nuts uniting the rings of each pair and passing through and independently anchoring the loops therebetween so that any cord-unit damaged by puncture or otherwise can be removed and replaced without disturbing the anchorages or tension of adjacent cord-units, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two Witnesses.

ALEXANDER LATIMER.

Witnesses CHARLES AUBREY DAY, ALFRED DAY.

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